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Welcome to the Viewsroom.

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary wing of Reuters

News coming to you from Missouri, Switzerland.

This week, my colleagues, Pete Sweeney and Yawin-Chen, chew over Chinese demographics.

Once in a decade, census data released on Tuesday showed the

country's population of 1.4 billion people is barely growing, adding to fears that a shrinking

workforce will hurt the economy. In turn, as Yawin and Pete discuss, this could make it harder

for the Middle Kingdom to pay off its prodigious debt load, a chunk of which was spent

rather wastefully on excess housing,

infrastructure, and underfunded pensions. After that, I speak to Lisa Yucca in Milan and Neil Unmac in London

about, well, what else? Spacks. This week saw the blank check party arriving in Europe, but with

a little less froth. British investor and SPAC pioneer Ian Osborne and Goldman Sachs alumnus Claudio Costamania,

are just two of the latest to import special purpose acquisition companies to the continent.

Yet to win over investors, they are offering vehicles that link founders rewards a little

more closely to shareholder returns.

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